The use of A&P data to ensure adherence to regulatory and corporate guidelines

The use of A&P data to measure performance of teams, assets and businesses
against market reported data points.

The use of A&P data to conduct cost-price analysis, identify negotiation points, and justify contractual positions but not to be shared with contracting parties

The use of A&P data to formulate a trading and hedging strategy (typically trading SWAPS, futures and options).

The graphical presentation of insubstantial portions of A&P data in reports, documents, charts and tables to be distributed externally on an occasional basis. A full copyright notice and disclaimer referring to A&P as the source of the data is to be applied under each chart/table.

The use of A&P data to formulate internal budgets, forecasting and targets, develop business plans, and attribute a fair value to assets, liabilities and trades for such purposes.

The use of A&P data to determine a fair price of goods/services supplied between affiliated legal entities within a group of companies.

The use of A&P data to analyse investment opportunities. This includes the evaluation of value, income, and risk of the intended investment.

The use of A&P data to produce, check, and validate settlement of invoices or payments in connection with contracts.

The use of A&P data to identify key market trends, market capacity, market size, market share, commercial opportunities and competition analysis.

The use of A&P data to arrange, control and optimise workloads in a business process.

The use of A&P data to identify, analyse and mitigate uncertainty in business, financial and legal decisions.

The use of A&P data to justify lending, issuing letters of credit, export credit, and insurance.

The use of A&P data to conduct settlements in physical or cash settled contracts. This includes using A&P data to produce, check, and validate settlement of invoices or payments in connection with contracts. This excludes trading for hedging or risk management purposes.

The use of A&P data to attribute a fair value to assets and liabilities, conduct mark-to-market analysis.